Science Sources
Search the database below for peer-reviewed studies and organizational reports documenting climate change trends. (Note: The database does not include studies on projected, or future change.) For studies that specifically identify the fingerprint of climate change on observed trends and events, visit Science Sources: Detection and Attribution.
Title | Source | Date | Author(s) |
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Identification of external influences on temperatures in California | Climatic Change | Céline Bonfils, Philip B. Duffy, Benjamin D. Santer, Tom M. L. Wigley, David B. Lobell, Thomas J. Phillips, Charles Doutriaux | |
Forced and unforced ocean temperature changes in Atlantic and Pacific tropical cyclogenesis regions | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | B. D. Santer, T. M. L. Wigley, P. J. Gleckler, C. Bonfils, M. F. Wehner, K. AchutaRao, T. P. Barnett, J. S. Boyle, W. Brüggemann, M. Fiorino, N. Gillett, J. E. Hansen, P. D. Jones, S. A. Klein, G. A. Meehl, S. C. B. Raper, R. W. Reynolds et al | |
Are observed decadal changes in intermediate water masses a signature of anthropogenic climate change? | Geophysical Research Letters | Helene T. Banks, Richard A. Wood, Jonathan M. Gregory, Timothy C. Johns, Gareth S. Jones | |
Detection and Attribution of Recent Climate Change: A Status Report | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | T. P. Barnett, K. Hasselmann, M. Chelliah, T. Delworth, G. Hegerl, P. Jones, E. Rasmusson, E. Roeckner, C. Ropelewski, B. Santer, and S. Tett | |
Detecting Greenhouse-Gas-Induced Climate Change with an Optimal Fingerprint Method | AMS Journal of Climate | Hegerl, G.C., H.v. Storch, K. Hasselmann, B.D. Santer, U. Cubasch, and P.D. Jones | |
EEE 2014: Record Annual Mean Warmth Over Europe, the Northeast Pacific, and the Northwest Atlantic During 2014: Assessment of Anthropogenic Influence | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Jonghun Kam, Thomas R. Knutson, Fanrong Zeng, and Andrew T. Wittenberg | |
Model-based assessment of the role of human-induced climate change in the 2005 Caribbean coral bleaching event | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Simon D. Donner, Thomas R. Knutson, Michael Oppenheimer | |
An intensified seasonal transition in the Central U.S. that enhances summer drought | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | S.‐Y. Simon Wang, Joseph Santanello, Hailan Wang, Daniel Barandiaran, Rachel T. Pinker, Siegfried Schubert, Robert R. Gillies, Robert Oglesby, Kyle Hilburn, Ayse Kilic, Paul Houser | |
Attribution of twentieth century temperature change to natural and anthropogenic causes | Climate Dynamics | P. A. Stott, S. F. B. Tett, G. S. Jones, M. R. Allen, W. J. Ingram, J. F. B. Mitchell | |
Estimation of natural and anthropogenic contributions to twentieth century temperature change | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Simon F. B. Tett, Gareth S. Jones, Peter A. Stott, David C. Hill, John F. B. Mitchell, Myles R. Allen, William J. Ingram, Tim C. Johns, Colin E. Johnson, Andy Jones, David L. Roberts, David M. H. Sexton, Margaret J. Woodage | |
Detection of a Human Influence on North American Climate | Science | David J. Karoly, Karl Braganza, Peter A. Stott, Julie M. Arblaster, Gerald A. Meehl, Anthony J. Broccoli, Keith W. Dixon | |
Human Contribution to the Lengthening of the Growing Season during 1950–99 | AMS Journal of Climate | Nikolaos Christidis, Peter A. Stott, and Simon Brown | |
Climate Change Attribution: When Is It Appropriate to Accept New Methods? | Earth's Future | Elisabeth A. Lloyd and Naomi Oreskes | |
Fire-climate history and landscape patterns of high burn severity areas on the California southern and central coast | Journal of Coastal Conservation | Christopher Potter | |
Quantifying the sensitivity of maximum, limiting, and potential tropical cyclone intensity to SST: Observations versus the FSU/COAPS global climate model | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | S. E. Strazzo, J. B. Elsner, T. E. LaRow | |
Increased record-breaking precipitation events under global warming | Climatic Change | Jascha Lehmann, Dim Coumou, Katja Frieler | |
Heat waves in the United States: definitions, patterns and trends | Climatic Change | Tiffany T. Smith, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Julia M. Gohlke | |
Attribution of the June-July 2013 Heat Wave in the Southwestern United States | Meteorological Society of Japan | Hideo Shiogama, Masahiro Watanabe, Yukiko Imada, Masato Mori, Youichi Kamae, Masayoshi Ishii, Masahide Kimoto | |
Under-estimated wave contribution to coastal sea-level rise | Nature Climate Change | Angélique Melet, Benoit Meyssignac, Rafael Almar, Gonéri Le Cozannet | |
EEE 2013: October 2013 Blizzard in Western South Dakota | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Laura M. Edwards, Matthew J. Bunkers, John T. Abatzoglou, Dennis P. Todey, and Lauren E. Parker |